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authorNicolas Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>2014-06-04 18:29:30 -0500
committerNicolas Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>2014-06-04 18:36:30 -0500
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Add cross-compilation notes to README
A detailed set of instruction as to how to setup a cross-compilation environment for OS X and Win32/64 would be nice.
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@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ bison installed. To build, run:
autoreconf -i
./configure
- make
+ make -j8
+ make check
After make finishes, you'll be able to use `./jq`. You can also
install it using:
@@ -27,3 +28,8 @@ install it using:
If you're not using the latest git version but instead building a
released tarball (available on the website), then you won't need to
run `autoreconf` (and shouldn't), and you won't need flex or bison.
+
+To cross-compile for OS X and Windows, see docs/Rakefile's build task
+and scripts/crosscompile. You'll need a cross-compilation environment,
+such as Mingw for cross-compiling for Windows.
+